Researchers have spotted a planet orbiting a white dwarf star just 80 light-years from Earth. White dwarf stars don’t typically have planets orbiting them due to the nature of how stars live and >>
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This is the first-ever image of an alien multi-planet system
Researchers at the European Southern Observatory have captured the first-ever images of a planetary system with multiple exoplanets. The system revolves around a star that is a lot like our sun, only younger. >>
Incredible image shows two massive stars locked in battle
Our Sun flies solo, chilling out in a relatively calm arm of the Milky Way galaxy and not causing much trouble for its stellar neighbors. That’s great for us, but it’s not uncommon >>
A colossal nearby star called Betelgeuse is acting very strange, but is it going to explode?
Our Sun is the reason we’re all here today. Some day it’ll go boom, but we’ll all (hopefully) be long gone, one way or another, by the time that happens. In the meantime >>
A red-hot alien world was found orbiting three stars
NASA’s TESS exoplanet-hunting satellite has already made some incredible discoveries in its first couple of years in service, but its latest find will definitely look familiar to sci-fi fans. The planet LTT 1445 >>
Dead planets beam ‘zombie’ radio signals into space for up to a billion years, scientists say
New exoplanet discoveries have been popping up with increasing regularity in recent years thanks to technological advances that allow scientists to spot evidence of their existence from afar. Spotting a dip in the >>
Astronomers spot dozens of stars that have been evicted from their homes
We often think of stars as things that don’t move around much, but in some galaxies, that’s far from a universal truth. New observations made by NASA’s powerful Chandra X-Ray Observatory reveal that >>
If we’re looking for aliens, we might want to take a closer look at twin stars
In the ongoing search for life outside of Earth, scientists already know that planets need to be in just the right place around their host star to support life as we know it >>
